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Cheese and mushroom casserole with chicken
This casserole is simple and delicious, and makes a perfect snack during a picnic (bento anyone?)—you should use it as a basic idea for a casserole, since the pasta sauce is the stable and the most important piece of the meal. It's also a very tweak-able recipe! :-)
Golden syrup chocolate cupcakes
These cupcakes have an amazing consistency all-over: the cupcake is moist and rich, and the icing is delicious, smooth and creamy. I used the swiss-meringue buttercream for the icing, and it was a hit! :-)
Cream-cheese strawberry cupcakes
Nothing compliments the strawberries like the cream-cheese icing, and you can enjoy this taste even off-season with strawberry jam! :-) You can skip limit the calories in this recipe by using lighter strawberry jam, or pulverized strawberries, and using half of the sugar in the cupcake part if you want the cupcakes less sweet.
Chili-walnut scrambled eggs with rucola
I was busy today with shopping and home chores, and needed something to snack on and get some energy kick. I managed to buy some chili peppers earlier today, and decided to make a savory scrambled eggs with a delicious, energetic spicy twist! :-) And oh my, that was both tasty and exciting!
Baked cake doughnuts
Traditional-made doughnuts are made with yeast dough, and deep-fried to make a fluffy, delicious spongy cake. It requires a lot of work to cook them, though, but for quick snacks (Sunday breakfast maybe?) the easier way are the baked cake doughnuts—which are spongy, fluffy and delicious too! You can enjoy them bare (like cakes), or glazed (like traditional yeast doughnuts), or stuffed if you overfill the form by any chance! :-)

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Benjamin Harrison
23rd president (1889-1893)
Background/Early Life
• Benjamin Harrison was born and raised in Ohio. He was the great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the grandson of William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States.
• Harrison attended college in Ohio and studied law there before moving to Indiana to practice the profession. That's where he also entered politics, serving as Indianapolis city attorney and holding various roles in the Republican party before serving in the military during the Civil War.
• After the war Harrison gained a more national political reputation for work he did supporting candidates like Rutherford B. Hayes and James Garfield. Hayes appointed Harrison to the Mississippi River Commission.
• Harrison was a United States Senator from Indiana before deciding to run for president.
How he defined the office
• The McKinley Tariff of 1890 (named for the future president, who was a congressman from Ohio at the time) was supported by President Harrison. The bill gave the president tremendous authority over foreign trade, and helped set a tone in foreign dealings that other presidents would follow in the 20th century.
• Harrison's support of the McKinley Tariff as well as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, passed in part to help gather support for the tariff, are believed to have contributed to the economic downturn of 1893, the greatest depression in American history to that point.
Successes and failures
• The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was supported by the Harrison administration. This was the first federal law to regulate giant corporations, which were beginning to monopolize the economy.
• He authorized America's first forest reserve in Yellowstone, Wyoming, with the Land Revision Act of 1891.
• President Harrison continued the work started by President Arthur in expanding the Navy. While he was president the Navy grew to seven armored ships.
• Harrison lost the 1892 presidential election to the same man he defeated in the 1888 election, Grover Cleveland.
notable quote
• "No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor."


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Artists Housing Achieves Energy Star Performance
Artists converting old industrial buildings into studio live/work spaces is a familiar story in many urban areas, but the conversion of a decrepit former factory into Brookside Artists Housing came with numerous twists and turns.
At the groundbreaking ceremony for Brookside Artists Housing in Boston, a city councilor recalled how she had spent hours on an Election Day three years earlier sitting with the artists at a hearing that prevented the building's owner from evicting them. This was a key victory,but it was only the first of many legal and political steps that were needed over several years in order for the artists to secure ownership of the building. Once they owned the building, the artists could address the significant rehabilitation that was needed to bring it up to code, and to transform it into safe and secure live/work spaces. The artists succeeded in getting the building not only up to code—but up to Energy Star standards. Budgetary problems nearly quashed their Energy Star-related aspirations; a creative use of funding sources was what pulled it off.
The artists brought in New Atlantic Development Corporation (NADC)— an experienced developer with several urban and historic rehabilitation projects in its portfolio—to oversee the project (see "Achieving High Performance in Affordable Multifamily Housing," HE May/June '04, p. 34).
When completed, Brookside will have 24 units. Three units are commercial/ work-only spaces, but the remaining 21 are live/work spaces under a special provision of the Boston zoning code that allows combined commercial and residential uses for artist housing. Three of the units will be sold at market rates; three will be sold at prices affordable to artists earning 60% or less of the median income for the area; and the rest will be sold at prices affordable to artists earning 80% or less of the median income. The development of Brookside is part of the city of Boston's Affordable Artist Housing program. In order to purchase a unit, applicants must demonstrate that they are working artists (deriving at least 10% of their income from art) whose income does not exceed the program limits. The units carry deed restrictions that preserve their use as artist live/work spaces and maintain their affordability over time.
Energy and Health Concerns
The buildings—post-and-beam construction with wide board sheathing, randomly spaced wall studs, and stone foundations—needed a total gut rehab for conversion into safe and comfortable live/work spaces. Peter Roth, president of NADC,was familiar with the Energy Star Homes program from previous projects, and he wanted to develop an Energy Star-rated project to provide the artists and other residents with energy-efficient homes and studios. The plans used technical standards from the Energy Star Homes program and called for insulation, air sealing, new windows, and energy-efficient heating and hot water systems. However, it was difficult to determine the best heating system for the small (800–1,600 ft2) units, since most of the available options were oversized.
Options were further complicated by the condominium ownership structure that would be the end result of the renovation and by the artists' desire to allocate costs to individual units while keeping common expenses and condominium fees to a minimum. Ultimately,we chose three Rinnai sealed combustion, gas-fired, variable output heating units.With capacities of 9,000 Btu/hr (81% annual fuel utilization efficiency or AFUE), 18,000 Btu/hr (84% AFUE), and 31,500 Btu/hr (82% AFUE),the Rinnai units could be mixed and matched for the unit size and provided the best option for cost effectiveness and relatively high efficiency.
In keeping with its industrial past and the size of the openings in the building, replacement windows were custom made.The metal-framed double-glazed windows, with low-e coatings and argon fill, have a U-factor of 0.54. The plans also called for Energy Star-rated refrigerators, dishwashers, and CFL interior and exterior lighting.
The development's address on Brookside Avenue provides a clue to one of the major health concerns: moisture management. The original construction included stone foundations and unfinished crawlspaces that were often wet, due to the nearby brook, the resulting high water table, and poor drainage. The health implications of creating airtight live/work spaces over wet, smelly crawlspaces were a worry, especially once constant exhaust fans were installed in the units to meet Energy Star Homes requirements. The rehabilitation plan called for new drainage to reduce future moisture problems, but it did not call for concrete floors. What kind of old industrial dust and bacterial contaminants would get pulled up through the old floorboards once the rest of the envelope was air sealed and the exhaust fans were turned on?
Resource Issues
Projects always have budget issues, and a project for "starving artists" is no exception. The renovation budget had to address basic code requirements as a first priority. The plan called for insulation, energy-efficient equipment, and air sealing to meet Energy Star Homes standards, but these standards are designed for new construction. As construction got underway, the Energy Star Homes program staff were worried that the existing conditions were so difficult that it would be impossible to install fiberglass batts properly or to meet the air sealing standards of 2 square inches or less leakage per 100 square feet of surface area to achieve the base qualification score of 86 using REM:Rate software.
The project was already facing cost overruns, and insulation upgrades were not in the budget.The modest goal of Energy Star Homes' basic score/rebates was at risk, but it seemed that little could be done. The project had nowhere to go for extra funds.The unit sales prices were set through the city of Boston's affordable artist live/work program formulas, so we couldn't increase the prices of the units. Many energy efficiency incentive programs are available in Massachusetts, and one of the services that my company, Urban Habitat Initiatives, provides is to help developers identify and combine programs to maximize benefits. This project proved to be a difficult fit. It was not clear how to find the resources the project needed to meet its energy efficiency goals. The project was complicated by the following:
No extra help from Energy Star Homes. The Massachusetts program provides additional grants to affordable housing projects, but it sets its affordability limit at 60% of the area median income for at least half of the units, with the remainder affordable to moderateincome households.Although Brookside has 18 units out of 24 set aside for affordable artist housing, the affordability ceiling for 15 of those units,much more than half, is 80% of median income.
No direct utility rebates or grants. KeySpan, the gas utility, provides rebates through the residential program for efficient furnaces or boilers for individual units, but the Rinnai units selected did not qualify for the program, which has a minimum furnace efficiency requirement of 90% AFUE. As mentioned above, finding the best system was challenging, due to building constraints and right-sizing for small live/work units. The Rinnai systems were cost-effective to install and could be sized properly. However, their nominal efficiency did not meet the rebate program requirements, although the technical experts thought that the effective efficiency of the Rinnai units would probably exceed 90% AFUE furnaces, which would be oversized for the units and therefore wouldn't operate at full efficiency. KeySpan can also provide rebates and supplemental grants through its commercial programs,but because this project had unit-based rather than common heat and hot water, the commercial program did not apply.
A New Application of an Alternative Resource
Then the light bulb (CFL, of course) went on.After several conversations with KeySpan,we realized that since this project was existing housing, it could meet the requirements for KeySpan's residential weatherization program. Under the program, 20% of the installed cost of the approved measures could be rebated. The KeySpan program generally supports energy efficiency measures taken by individual homeowners, but the program staff saw the benefits of supporting a developer's efforts to achieve better energy performance for condominiums that would be sold to individual owners. They made the case internally and received approval from program managers to use funds this way.
Once approval to use the weatherization program in this innovative way was given, NADC was able to upgrade the insulation. The exterior wall insulation was changed to damp-spray cellulose, while the insulation for the underside of the floors (the ceiling of the dirt-floored crawlspace) was upgraded to Icynene. The damp spray cellulose provided better insulation, better sound control, and much better air sealing, and it eliminated the need for a vapor barrier. The Icynene between the crawlspace and the live/work spaces should keep the old industrial dust and bacterial contaminants from being pulled up through the old floorboards and then breathed in by residents.
One challenge in using the KeySpan program was the requirement that the work be done by certified contractors. As it happened, the cellulose installer was a previously approved KeySpan contractor, but the Icynene installer was not. He had to become certified through the program before he could install the insulation. The new rigid insulation under the new roof also should have qualified for rebates under the weatherization program, but the installer was not certified and there was not enough time for him to become certified before the roof insulation was installed. As a result, the developer could not include this work in the rebate request.This presents a cautionary tale for widespread adoption of a single-family-oriented program to a multifamily development.
Multifamily general contractors usually price a job using a known set of subcontractors. When a certified list is mostly subcontractors that work in a single-family rather than a multifamily context, the general contractor may not be familiar with them and may not be comfortable including them on the construction team. Conversely, subcontractors who work primarily on multifamily projects may not want to go through the certification process just to help the developer collect rebates,when they don't see opportunities for future business.
The energy efficiency upgrade costs were minimal, but they were critical to the feasibility of the project. The weatherization program rebates were just enough to cover the cost difference, and they made it possible to proceed. For phase 1, the cost of fiberglass insulation for the areas where cellulose and Icynene were installed was $11,474. The upgrade cost was $14,292, for a total increased cost of $2,818. The weatherization program offered 20% of the total installed cost, or $2,858, leaving the developer slightly ahead on a direct-cost basis. Also, because the insulation upgrades made the difference in the Energy Star program rating, the developer obtained Energy Star Homes program rebates of $300 per unit.
End Result: We Made It!
Much to everyone's relief, the project passed the Energy Star Homes airtightness testing, and the project qualified for the basic program certification and rebate level. NADC typically achieves much higher REM:Rate scores on its new construction projects,but for Brookside it was a stretch to aim for basic qualification. Everyone agreed that passing was a victory— for energy efficiency, healthy housing, cost-effective live/work spaces, and for the new residents. The technical support from the Energy Star Homes program staff and program support from KeySpan through the innovative application of weatherization funds to the project enabled the development team to achieve its building performance goals.
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May 5th, 2012
My Faith: Returning to church, despite my doubts
Editor's note: Andrea Palpant Dilley is the author of "Faith and Other Flat Tires."
By Andrea Palpant Dilley, Special to CNN
During my junior year in college, I took a butter knife from my mother's kitchen and scraped the Christian fish decal off the back bumper of the Plymouth hatchback I'd inherited from my older brother. Stripping off that sticker foreshadowed the day, a few years later, that I would walk out of church.
The reasons for my discontent were complicated. By most standards, I had a healthy childhood. I grew up the daughter of Quaker missionaries in a rural Kenyan community that laid the foundation for my faith. I spent the rest of my childhood in the Pacific Northwest, raised in a stable Presbyterian church that gave me hymns and mission trips and potluck dinners.
I was surrounded by smart, conscientious Christians, the kind of people who read 19th century Russian novels and took meatloaf to firefighters when much of eastern Washington state went up in flames in the fall of 1991.
When I started into my skeptic phase, my Christian community gave me space to struggle. They listened to my doubts about faith. They took my questions seriously.
And yet when I turned 23 I left the church.
Listening to a sermon at my older brother's church one Sunday, I stood up, leaned over to my father and said, "This is bulls**t." I made my way to the end of the pew and marched out of the sanctuary. The sermon didn't sit right with me. The pastor was preaching about Psalm 91, saying in so many words that a person just needed to pray and have faith in order to be protected from suffering.
More than just that sermon, I was sick of church. I was sick, too, of all the spiritual questions plaguing me: Why does the church seem so culturally insulated and dysfunctional? Why does God seem distant and uninvolved? And most of all, why does God allow suffering?
These questions didn't come out of nowhere. I'd spent time in high school volunteering in refugee camps in Kenya and in college working with families on welfare in central Washington. I saw hungry babies. I walked into homes that were piled with garbage and dirty laundry.
In an orphanage in the slums of Nairobi, I held AIDS babies and worked with disabled kids who'd been left at the front gates of the orphanage by parents who couldn't afford to feed them. I saw things that I couldn't make sense of as a Christian.
Walking out of church was a way of saying "To hell with it; I'm done."
For two years, I skipped church. My Bible gathered dust on the shelf. The local bars became my temples. I indulged in the cliché rebellions of a Christian girl, smoking cigarettes and drinking hard alcohol. I got involved with men twice my age without thinking twice about it. I wanted a break from being "good."
And then, strangely, I woke up one morning at age 25, climbed into my car, and drove downtown to attend a 10 a.m. church service. I won't relate here the whole story of how I came back to the church. But if I had to follow the standard testimonial narrative for Christians, the script for my life story would go something like this:
Step 1: Grow up in a Christian church.
Step 2: Go off to college away from said church.
Step 3: Be exposed to the enticements of secular life.
Step 4: Try drugs and cigarettes and Pearl Jam.
Step 5: Leave the church because of aforementioned enticements.
Step 6: Experience epiphany; realize vapidness of secular enticements.
Step 7: Return to church with penitent heart.
Step 8: Reestablish faith, discover good living.
In reality, I left the church more because of my own internal discontent than the lure of so-called secular life. When I came back, I still carried that same discontent. I was confused, and still bothered by questions and doubts. I stayed in the back row and didn't sing or pray. I wasn't really sure I wanted to be there.
And yet I sat there, Sunday after Sunday, listening to the pastor and the organ pipes and trying to figure out what was going on in my dark, conflicted heart.
Although I never experienced that dramatic reconversion moment, I did come to peace with two slow-growing realizations.
First: My doubt belonged in church.
People who know my story ask what I would have changed about my spiritual journey. Nothing. I had to leave the church to find the church. And when I came back, the return wasn't clean or conclusive. Since then, I've come to believe that my doubts belong inside the space of the sanctuary. My questions belong on the altar as my only offering to God.
With all its faults, I still associate the church with the pursuit of truth and justice, with community and shared humanity. It's a place to ask the unanswerable questions and a place to be on sojourn. No other institution has given me what the church has: a space to search for God.
Second: My doubt is actually part of my faith.
In Mark 9:24, a man says to Jesus, "I believe, help my unbelief." The Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor called this the foundation prayer of faith. I pray that prayer often and believe that God honors my honesty.
I also believe God honors my longing. The writer and theologian Frederick Buechner said "Faith is homesickness." C.S. Lewis called it "Sehnsucht," a longing for a far-off country. I feel that sense of unshakable yearning. It comes from the deepest part of my heart, a spiritual desire that's strangely, mysteriously connected to my doubt.
Sitting in church every Sunday, my doubt is my desire – to touch the untouchable, to possess the presence of God.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Andrea Palpant Dilley.
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Colin Kirkus: Climbing's Greatest Unknown
Tales of the Legendary British Climber.
It was 1930, and Colin Kirkus searched intently for any way to reach the huge slab high on the 500-foot battlement of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu. His first obstacle was an overhang — a very big one, as he later noted in his memoir: it created a sort of covered corridor, with a roof that projected in places for 20 feet or more.
Dark and ancient, with soaring gray faces and aretes, Cloggy is high in the heart of Snowdonia, the mountain center of North Wales. North-facing, slow to dry, and home to historic runouts, it was at one point considered impossible to climb, and remains a treasury of hard, heady classics.
From the ground, Kirkus, the leading climber of his era, decided to break through the middle, where a pile of blocks created a weakness, and traverse leftwards along the edge. He hoped to gain a narrow slab that reared up to the skyline. Whatever lay after the slab, as he would write in Let's Go Climbing, was impossible to guess.
On the exposed traverse, Kirkus hit a foothold too slick for his rubbers, so he took them off and continued in his socks. The traverse is Very Severe (5.7 or 5.8).
He reached a tiny grass ledge, and looked up at the narrow, difficult, rotten face, wondering what was coming. A hundred feet above the base, with the overhang below him, he was absolutely committed. He started up.
A thin ribbon of grass ran all the way out on the right, looking like a long and ragged caterpillar. I thought that even this might be safer than the rock and plunged into it. …[I]t began to peel off and slide down. I left this moving staircase very hurriedly, and took to the rocks again. I climbed on the extreme edge …. Below my left foot the rocks dropped, sheer and unclimbable, for 200 feet.
He ran out of his 120-foot line with no belay in sight, and his partner Graham MacPhee tied on another 100-foot rope.
Kirkus finally reached a thread belay: It was wonderful to think no one had ever been here before. It was still more interesting to wonder whether we should ever escape.
In his tragically short life, the quiet, unassuming Kirkus dominated Welsh rock climbing in the pre-World War II years.
Kirkus's climbs were the finest series of first ascents then seen on any cliff, Paul Williams wrote in the introduction to his guidebook Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, citing the Great Slab, described above; the Chimney Route (VS 4c / 5.8); the Direct Finish (HS 4b / 5.7) to the East Buttress; and five other major routes on Cloggy: all are but a part of the Kirkus legacy across Snowdonia.
Ben Moon of England, one of the world's top climbers in the 1980s and 1990s (whose recent V13 boulder problems in Salt Lake City went unrepeated for two years), calls Colin Kirkus his climbing hero.
My grandfather was into climbing in the 1930s and had a massive mountaineering book collection, one of which was Kirkus's classic Let's Go Climbing, Moon says. As a 14-year-old I loved this book and read it over and over again.
Kirkus was also a hero to Joe Brown, 1950s climbing legend, and Don Whillans.
Yet mention Kirkus to most American climbers, and they have no idea who he is.
Kirkus was known as unobtrusive and even gentle, but written accounts also celebrate him as a tremendous eater: he would finish his dinner and then the dinners of any and everyone else in a hut, and any scrap. He once unabashedly cooked up a hard, bluish fish he found left behind in a hut kitchen.
When Kirkus climbed, he tied in about 20 feet from the end of a hemp rope, and cut pieces to thread as protection along the way.
He fell more than once soloing, and his partners caught at least one fall midair with a rugby tackle.
One day Kirkus started soloing the unclimbed West Buttress of Craig Lloer, struggling with a crack and an overhang. Above, he thoughtlessly climbed halfway up a bulge, and made rather a grab for a high handhold, losing his footholds. He then hung on waning arms, with no holds above, unable to descend. I looked down and saw a sheer drop of nearly 200 feet below me, he would write. Then I got into a panic and made a sudden convulsive spring round the corner on the left, where my hand mercifully landed on a hold. The solo FA is today called Kirkus's Route VS 5a (5.8).
Among his more successful solos were an exposed arete at VS 4c (5.7-5.8), a variation to the classic Grooved Arete on the mountain crag Tryfan. He climbed with the other visionaries of the era, including Menlove Edwards, Maurice Linnell and Alf Bridge.
Kirkus worked in an insurance office in Liverpool, and, according to his biographer Steve Dean in Hands of a Climber (The Ernest Press), secretly studied marked-up photos of Welsh cliffs in his desk drawers at work. Middle-class, never owning a car in his life, he often bicycled from Liverpool to Snowdonia, about 60 miles, to climb for a weekend. On at least one occasion he walked it.
In 1933 Kirkus and Charles Warren climbed Bhagarithi III (6,454 meters), in the Garhwal Himalaya, India. The two used only four porters, who stayed at basecamp, and they climbed alpine style, carrying all their equipment and moving swiftly on technical terrain. Their route culminated with an exposed, vertical corner topped by an overhang, led by Kirkus. Warren believed it the hardest climbing done at altitude to date.
Steve Dean says it is generally agreed that the climb never received the recognition it deserved. One of the reasons was the chaos of impending World War.
I met Charles [Warren] on two occasions in 1988 and he had very clear memories of it all, Dean e-mails from his home in Derbyshire, England. He climbed with Warren, whom he calls a great natural, floating strenuous VS in his latter 60s and completing long mountain days in his 70s. The overhang was thought to be about Alpine Grade 4 (British Severe, or 5.6). It is amazing that Kirkus led it at altitude in 1933.
I always wanted to do a route on Cloggy, though its reputation was unnerving, but lived in North Wales for five months without ever doing so. I peered across at it while hiking Mount Snowdon, and often inquired about it, but it was never dry.
It was only on an eventual third trip to Wales that, with Kath Pyke, I finally walked up the railroad track to Clogwyn Du'r Arddu. whose face we could not even see in the swirling mist.
We headed for the Chimney Route, 360 feet, VS (5.8), a 1931 Kirkus route. The five-pitch line starts almost in the center of the East Buttress, an obvious chimney just left of the vast Great Wall, on which Johnny Dawes scribed the mythical Indian Face, probably the world's first E9, in 1986.
My friend Kath says today that she mostly remembers green and slime, and moss oozing. We groveled up the chimney, she recalls, and I later found moss in my chalkbag.
The fourth pitch, an 80-foot 4c, fell to me. Climb down right and step round the arete into a groove, the guidebook read. Go up this to a large flake. Traverse right and climb the steep and exposed wall on excellent holds.
I got stuck on that wall for I don't know how long: wet, humbled, worrying about scant pro, and absolutely uncertain of where to go before finally finding the next facet.
Colin Kirkus survived three serious climbing accidents, including rockfall on Ben Nevis, Scotland, in which his party of four was swept 250 feet down, plummeting over a 40-foot ice wall. Parts of his account show the understated humor that limns much of his writing:
I think Alfred was the first to be hit. A large rock broke his arm, which he had put up to protect his head. He went down, but Dorothy held him. Then she too was hit and they were both swept down. …
I tried desperately to reach the little crevasse on the left. … I was swept down in the shooting stream of rocks.
I went head-first; it seems to be a habit of mine. …
Derrick must have arrived soon afterward to complete the party. He went plonk into a hole, so that only his head and shoulders were visible. He looked rather funny.
In another account, from Crib Goch, Kirkus describes seeing a friend lose control of a glissade, dropping his axe, but fortunately stopping in soft snow. I believe in keeping cool in an emergency — providing it is someone else's emergency — so I asked him quite calmly what impulse prompted him to throw away his axe. His reply is best left to the imagination.
In 1934 Kirkus was on easy ground near the top of Ben Nevis when a snow step collapsed underfoot, and he shot off the hard ice underneath, pulling his dear friend Maurice Linnell from a probable ice-axe belay. Kirkus slid and bounced about 300 feet, and at some point woke from unconsciousness to seek Linnell, finding him 80 feet above, suspended on the other side of a ridge with the rope caught around his neck. Kirkus descended alone, passing in and out of consciousness, with a fractured skull, a concussion, serious damage to his right eye, and an injured jaw and leg.
At least one friend said Kirkus was never quite the same again, and Dean quotes a painful passage from Let's Go Climbing as indirectly referencing the tragedy.
A fatal accident is a very terrible thing. Don't think of yourself, but think of the effect on all your relations and friends if anything were to happen to you. Or think how you would feel if you had to meet the parents of a friend who had been killed while climbing with you.
Kirkus' eye was always misaligned after his accident, a flaw that could have kept him out of the RAF as the World War flared. When he signed on, though, the line for the eyesight test was a long one, giving him time to memorize the chart.
He married in 1940, and that same year departed for the war, where he became one of the best navigators in his squadron. Kirkus and his crew disappeared on a dangerous Pathfinder Force mission over Bremen, Germany, in September 1942. He was 32.
His friend Alf Bridges wrote in a letter reproduced in Hands of a Climber, I am glad of the privilege that was mine, in being so close in friendship to a man whose qualities of courage, kindness and loyalty were of a noble standard.
[He was] the greatest climber of his generation, and possibly of all time.
Alison Osius is executive editor of Rock and Ice. She at one time worked for the Plas y Brenin British National Mountain Centre, in North Wales.


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Playing with pain: No surgery needed for Bergeron's various injuries
BOSTON — Torn rib cartilage in Game 4.
A broken rib in Game 5.
A separated shoulder in Game 6.
Patrice Bergeron played through it all in the Stanley Cup final. And that doesn't include the collapsed lung that the Boston Bruins star learned about after skating up and down the TD Garden ice in the last game, trying in vain to keep the season going.
"I don't know if there's pride," Bergeron said Tuesday. "Some people would say it's stupid."
He was in the hospital last Wednesday when his teammates met reporters for the final time, two days after the season ended with a 3-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks in the sixth game. So on Tuesday, he stood at a podium in the Bruins locker room, hands in the pockets of his pink shorts, and matter-of-factly recited his medical record.
At least his legs were spared.
"It's all good," Bergeron said. "I'm 100 percent (in the) lower body."
The stitches sewn at the end of his right eyebrow while he sat on the bench in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Rangers were gone. The red scar on his nose was still visible from the fight he had with Evgeni Malkin in Game 1 of Boston's four-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the conference finals.
His spleen checked out OK after an ambulance took him from the United Center during Game 5 of the last round in Chicago. He hadn't been diagnosed with a concussion since the fourth of his career sidelined him for six games in April.
But moving on, Patrice, how about next season?
No problem.
Bergeron said he doesn't need surgery and should be ready for the start of training camp.
"I just need," he said, "I guess, a couple weeks."
Any of those injuries would have sidelined players in other sports. But Bergeron, one of the NHL's best all-around players, insists he did nothing special to help the Bruins play for their second Stanley Cup title in three years.
"You put everything on the line to help your team. That's basically what I did. I'm 100 percent confident everyone else would have done the same thing," the Bruins alternate captain said. "There's a lot of really tough guys on our team and I don't feel like I should take all the praise."
Bergeron has spent all of his nine NHL seasons with the Bruins. Without him, they likely would have been eliminated in the first round when they trailed the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 with less than 11 minutes left in regulation of an intense Game 7. He tied it with 51 seconds remaining in the third period, then won it with his goal at 6:05 of overtime.
He scored another overtime winner in Game 3 against Pittsburgh. Then he had two goals -- and the first since his rash of injuries -- in Game 4 against Chicago.
But that was the game in which the center tore rib cartilage. Early in Game 5, he was hit in the ribs and suffered a crack on the left side. Doctors told him the only way he could play in Game 6 was to get a nerve block that would freeze the area. So he had one -- and needed other pain-killing shots during the game.
Bergeron also separated his right shoulder in the first period but played the rest of the way.
"I can't remember who it was from their team, but it was in the corner, trying to just battle and I was trying to protect my ribs," he said. "I fell kind of awkwardly in the boards and opened up my shoulder a bit and separated it."
As the game went on, he could feel his energy fading. When it ended, he endured the tradition of shaking hands with his opponents and went to the locker room.
From there, Bergeron went right to Massachusetts General Hospital, where a puncture was found in the lung.
"I kind of had trouble breathing a little bit," he said. "I felt like my chest was closing in on me so the doctors didn't want to take any chances. There's an X-ray machine (in the locker room), but they couldn't tell, really. It wasn't clear enough for them. They wanted to make sure and, luckily enough, they made the right decision because I went there right away and they found out that my lung had collapsed."
General manager Peter Chiarelli said he thought the lung was punctured after the game.
"If it had happened during the game, he would have felt the pain and then he wouldn't have been able to play," Chiarelli said last week.
At the hospital, a tube was put in his left side for a few days to remove air from the area where the lung collapsed and make sure it stayed inflated, Bergeron said. Some teammates visited him there on Wednesday, the day he was released.
"It was actually nice to see a bunch of guys and be able to talk a little bit," he said.
While he recovers, he hopes to get an extension of his three-year contract that runs through next season.
Bergeron tied for the team lead with nine playoff goals and had 15 points. He led the NHL in winning faceoffs, and he won the Selke Trophy as the league's top defensive forward the previous season.
So he's "very confident" he'll get an extension.
"It would mean a lot," Bergeron said. "It's a team that believed in me when I was 18 and when I was coming up and now, like I said before, it's my home. I feel like it is, and I love the city. I love the people, definitely love the organization."
He'd love another Stanley Cup. That's why he played through the pain.
"There's no regrets on my part," he said. "I did whatever I could've done to help my team and try to be there for our biggest game of the year."


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Today's News: Our Take - The Office's Ellie Kemper on Erin and Pete, a Very Dwight Christmas and Mindy Project
Die Hard made $137 million at the worldwide box office, turned Bruce Willis a bona fide movie star and earned legions of adoring fans. But you won't catch The Office'sEllie Kemper screaming "Yippee-ki-yay!" anytime soon.
"I saw the clips and I saw enough," she tells TVGuide.com with a laugh. "I could say for The Sound of Music and A League of Their Own - like, 'How have you not seen those movies?!' But I don't feel that connection to Die Hard. No offense to Bruce Willis."
That won't stop Kemper's Office alter-ego from at least trying to get into the 1988 action classic on the NBC comedy's Christmas episode (Thursday at 9/8c). "Pete learns that Erin hasn't seen Die Hard and this is one of his favorite movies," she says. "Pete can recite all the lines. When we were on set, all the guys knew all the lines to Die Hard."
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The move is a big step forward for Pete (Jake Lacy) and Erin, who have become fast friends since he joined Dunder Mifflin, and especially since Erin's boyfriend Andy (Ed Helms) set sail. "I think it's really important in terms of Erin's maturity to have someone else to relate to," Kemper says. "In a surprising way, Erin is craving a more mature relationship that doesn't depend on acting on a whim. Andy and Erin have a lot of cute, but very childish bits that they do with each other. With Pete, it's more of a mature relationship. He's calm and sincere with her in a way that maybe Andy isn't always. ... There's a sense of stability with Pete that could be attractive to Erin."
So will John McClane save the dayand ultimately push these two past the friend zone? "I do think it brings them closer because she's amused by this and its fun and she gets a kick out of it," Kemper says. "Then she receives some news while they're watching this that inevitably brings them closer for the moment."
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Kemper is tight-lipped about what exactly the news is, but she hints that there are "bumps" ahead for some of the show's key relationships. "There are some very dark moments in this episode," she says. "But I think that's what the writers do so well - combining those darker, sad moments with an overall sense of camaraderie and the sense of, 'We're going to get through this.'"
Behind the scenes, the Christmas episode also packed an extra punch as it was the last one ever for the departing show. "I feel like I might be expected to say this because it is the last one, but I truly I love this episode so much," Kemper says. "I specifically love Dwight's storyline. He brings in his family Christmas traditions. I've always held Dwight as one of my favorite characters and now 'Dwight Christmas' just takes it to a new level."
Kemper admits there were some sentimental feelings filming The Office's last Christmas episode, but there has been one big upside to Season 9: the return of creator Greg Daniels. Daniels resumed his showrunning duties this season after taking a step back to work on other shows back in Season 4. "I really appreciate how much he wanted my own contribution to what this potentially new love interest for Erin should be like and how this affects Erin," Kemper says. "Erin has a habit of saying dumb things and not thinking things through, but at the end of the day, I do want to think of her as a three-dimensional character that has room to mature and develop. So, I think that is such a nice thing to happen in the final season and he spear-headed that."
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Kemper may be plenty busy juggling two love interests, but she still found time to film a guest spot on the Christmas episode of The Mindy Project (Tuesday at 9:30/8:30c on Fox) opposite Office alum Mindy Kaling. "Mindy plays a very different character from Kelly Kapoor on her new show and I get to play a very different character from Erin," Kemper says. "Mindy loves Christmas episodes, and I love Christmas episodes, so getting these two things together was such a dream for me."
The episode not only marked a reunion for the "Subtle Sexuality" duo, but also for Kemper and Tommy Dewey, who recurs as Mindy's boyfriend, Josh, and with whom Kemper used to perform improv in college. "I felt more like I was in a play because it's not documentary style," Kemper says. "It was a totally fun and different format for me, but I also loved that group over there. You can tell that they're having fun. Maybe I can go back."
With The Office wrapping this spring, Kemper will soon have plenty of time to return to The Mindy Project - as well as explore other paths. "I've been thinking about that a lot," she says. "I'm excited to read scripts this January and February and see what is out there. I think television is getting better and better. I would love to keep working in television, possibly next year, I hope."
The Office airs Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC. Are you excited for the final Christmas episode? Do you think Erin should be with Andy or Pete? Sound off below!
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Duct Tape Story Still Unravelling We have had an opportunity to review your article entitled Can Duct Tape Take the Heat? (July/Aug '98, p.14). With regard to the article addressing Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Test Standard UL 181B, we have the following comments:
It seems that your experiments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are based largely upon an assumption that the use of clamps is not prevalent. UL does not agree with this assumption, since clamp usage plays a major role in the acceptable performance of a UL-listed air duct construction. Clamp use not only is required as a part of the UL certification of air ducts but also is prevalent throughout installation standards (i.e., Air Diffusion Council). Also, the codes require the air ducts and joints to be installed in accordance with the listing and accompanying installation instructions. Therefore, the clamps are an integral part of the air duct system construction. Since tapes marked 181B-FX are intended for use with clamps and UL-listed air ducts, your testing without clamps should not have been tied to the UL certification of the air duct system construction.
Based upon these facts, there are some portions of your article that are not accurate and with which we are not in agreement. We appreciate the opportunity to review your article, and we recognize your efforts to enlighten others about air duct systems and closure means.
Dwayne E. Sloan, Staff Engineer
We believe the 181B-FX tapes (indeed all of the tapes) would do better if clamped, because the failures would take longer to become apparent. They all would probably also have done better on a flex duct-to-collar type of joint rather than a finger joint. Our objective, though, was accelerated testing of the sealants to determine relative performance, and from that perspective our tests were accurate. As we infer from your comments, our results may lead to potential changes in installation practices, but we did not dwell on that issue in the report.
I found your article Can Duct Tape Take the Heat? on the Internet after reading about it in today's Times-Union in Jacksonville, Florida. I am not surprised to learn that duct tape doesn't last on heat and air ducts (even though I love the stuff and always have a roll in my car--you never know when you'll need some). My question is: Would duct leakage account for the dripping from my ceiling vents in the summer months (condensation?) when I have my air conditioner on in the hot, humid conditions in Florida?
My husband and I built our home approximately seven years ago and we have four a/c units (the house is just over 6,000 ft2). We moved into the house in December, and all was well. Then during the first summer here we began having a drip problem from about a third of the a/c vents (two a/c units).
I called the company that installed the a/c (and ductwork), and now it is seven years later and still the problem is not solved. I have mildew on the ceilings around the dripping vents. Just yesterday (before I read the article) I contacted my a/c company again and asked to have someone do something about it. They don't seem to know what to do. The repairman came half an hour ago and said, I'll send a duct man. I don't know anything about ducts.
I just want to figure out what to do about the leaking! Any ideas?
Chris Orta
I am a long distance runner. I am also prone to blisters and as such have taken to carefully applying layers of duct tape to my toes and the bottom of my feet before my 50-mile runs and my 100-mile attempts. I have found that 3M duct tape works the best, and that if I carefully clean my feet with alcohol and gauze pads, let it dry, and then spray on a product called Liquid Bandage, it works better.
However, it does not work well on a hot day! There must be something better I could be using. Any suggestions?
Ross D. Lewis, Jr.
I recently read an article in the L.A. Times about your test on duct tape. If it doesn't work, what is the BEST tape that will work? Also, how did this tape get its name if it is not reliably used to seal ducts?
Steve Latshaw
This article is incredibly illuminating! We remodeled our house following the Loma Prieta earthquake, installing all new ducting and a new +90 high-efficiency, condensing furnace. I thought I had gone crazy when in less than three years the main duct in the furnace room fell off the connecting sheet metal branch. We only noticed it because it was VERY COLD in the house, but we had no idea how long it had been like that.
After repairing it with additional duct tape and wrapping that with zip ties, I went under the house and discovered that at least half of the other ducts had FALLEN off the registers! I made the same type of repair, wrapping with more duct tape and then fastening the duct tape with zip ties. I also carefully restrapped the ducts so that there was less weight on the registers, holding them in place. Unfortunately, I had no way to get to the ducting that was in Sheetrock and then connected to registers.
We just recently sold that house, and the inspector made mention of two registers that did not have air coming out when the furnace was on. How curious! So much for spending huge amounts of money on a high efficiency furnace!
Thank you for your work! I am now in a brand new home and am about to go under the house and rewrap the duct tape with clear plastic shipping tape. And now I know to keep a good eye on this kind of a problem. And yes, I did make sure the new house had a +90!!
Michael Light
Editor's note: There has been a great deal of reaction to Sherman and Walker's duct tape research results. To respond to requests for more information, the scientists have put up a duct tape page on their Web site. The address is http://ducts.lbl.gov/ducttape.On the Question of Kilowatts I would like to make some additional comments on the article I wrote about my experience building my own house (Building for Better Breathing, Sept/Oct '98, p. 41).
The total annual energy costs for this all-electric house, which includes a private well for two families, averages 16,311 kWh. The energy used for heating, cooling, filtration, and ventilation is about 7,666 kWh. The 1,157 kWh mentioned in the article is the power necessary to run the energy recovery ventilator motors for one year and is included in the 7,666 kWh total for space conditioning.
Additionally, the ventilation rate equals 0.65 air changes per hour. I wanted to ventilate at that rate to maintain a VOC level in this new house such that I could not detect the smells when I entered from outside. Achieving this healthy ventilation rate was not expensive. We use 166 kWh per month, which costs $9.17.
Although super housing is possible, most of us will spend most of our life in a more common type of shelter. That being the case, we should expect common housing to perform to its full potential.
Bruce Davis
In Putting the Byte Into Your Analysis Toolkit (Sept/Oct '98, p.25) we published a list of energy analysis software contacts (p. 31) and did not include one of the best energy analysis sites on the Web. The Home Energy Saver, developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is available at http://eetd.lbl.gov/hes/.
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Hit List Factor: it says that it's the average of four columns (actual, W1, W2, W3). Is that a mistake? If not, why is the O's number smaller than all four columns?
Apr 06, 2013 08:17 AM
I have the same question as OkayFine.
May 15, 2013 08:41 AM
Johnson Magic
Any answer coming on the question? HLF doesn't seem to be the average of any of the other win%s. How is it calculated?
Jun 10, 2013 10:18 AM
It has been wrong now for at least 2 months. Time to either fix the description of that column, or fix the formula.
Jun 13, 2013 08:04 AM
I'm curious as to why there is a standard +/- 20 points in the Adjusted Hit List Factor between AL and NL teams. First, isn't some portion of whatever difference there is between the leagues already taken into account in the 3rd Order Win Percentage, which accounts for opponents? Second, how is the 20 point margin decided upon? It hasn't changed since the beginning of the season, and it is not transparently anything more than a crude adjustment. Third, shouldn't the 20 point margin be adjusted as a team plays more interleague games? If an AL team gets a 20 point bump for playing in the more difficult league, shouldn't that bump decrease as more of its results come against NL opponents? From the outside, the Adjusted Hit List Factor appears to be very imprecise. Thanks in advance for any explanation.
Jun 24, 2013 07:12 AM
Why aren't the AHLF standings calculated as (current wins) + AHLF * (games remaining)? This seems more realistic than simply assuming that sufficient regression to AHLF will occur to make a team's final win total equal 162 * AHLF.
Jul 06, 2013 04:46 AM
This has not been updated for the games of 7/19 at 7:23p (EDT) on 7/20.
Jul 20, 2013 16:23 PM
I guess nobody commented in 2014. Didn't want that to happen in 2015.
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John Collins
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Just before the John-featured tune plays on the 11-track set, there's the song "Rat a Tat," featuring Courtney Love.
"It's important for girls to understand that they don't need to just be coat hangers for boys, it's not all about being groupies," he said. "So we thought it would be important to have an iconic female voice on the album, and Courtney screams rock 'n' roll."
The album's first single, "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)," is a Top 40 hit that was remixed by 2 Chainz, who stars in the song's music video.
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2 Chainz and rapper Big Sean's appearances balance the rock heavyweights on "Save Rock and Roll," which the band will promote on a U.S. tour that kicks off May 14 in Milwaukee. (They'll also hit the road internationally this summer and will return to the U.S. for a fall tour.)
A year after releasing 2008's "Folie a Deux," the foursome, which includes drummer Andy Hurley, took a break from recording together. There was speculation the group had split up.
"No, we never broke up," Trohman said. Wentz quickly jumped in, saying: "No, but I think that it's like, I don't know. ... When we were taking time off and it was like ... we could be back in 20 years or maybe we won't ever come back. I think that was the great thing about how we took time off and it kind of allowed it to be healthier that it didn't put a return date on it."
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BERLIN – Attention all passengers: could the person who left a stash of gold bars and a pile of banknotes in the luggage deposit at Cologne's main railway station kindly contact German police?
That was the appeal that police in the western German city issued Friday for information to track down the owner of the several pounds of gold and a six-figure sum of euros in cash.
The stash was found in April in a luggage locker at the station, a major European transport hub. Police said they're going public after being unable to link the haul to any crime and hearing nothing from any legitimate owner.
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Sir John Gurdon just won a Nobel Prize... but was told at 15 that he'd never be a scientist. Bad report cards wind up on the RidicuList.
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Lately there's been a lot of talk about the increasing crossover between books for the adult and young adult (YA) markets, typically defined as ages 13 and up. More people in each group seem to reading books written for the other.
This crossover is occurring partly because the young-adult market has exploded and offers many more books that might appeal to adults than it did a generation ago. At the same time, as cultural literacy has declined, books for adults have gotten dumber. A lot of them would suit adolescents better than people who haven't been carded since the Clinton administration. So the adult and young-adult markets are meeting in the middle: The average bestseller is pitched to an 11- or 12-year-old, to judge by the calculations of authors' writing levels that that I've done using the Microsoft Word readability statistics. Still another reason for the crossover might be that parents are more involved with homework than they used do, so they're dipping the books their children bring home and finding that they like them.
So here this month's question: What books for adults have you read that you would recommend to teenagers and vice versa? One of the best recent examples I can think of is The Red Leather Diary, a journal kept in the 1930s by a woman now in her 90s whom the journalist Lily Koppel tracked down and interviewed. This adult book would no doubt appeal to many teenagers, too.
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Not content with just suing sources, small out-of-state nonprofits, bloggers who get 20 hits per day, and other massive copyright pirates, newspaper litigation firm Righthaven this week trained its guns on Ars Technica. The company filed a federal lawsuit against one of our freelance writers over a post (about Righthaven) that appeared on the site back in December—only to dismiss it this morning.
Why was the case ever brought? It was (cough) a "clerical mistake."
"Meet my little friend"
The Las Vegas Review Journal helped to launch Righthaven, a separate Las Vegas company that for the last year has sued mostly bloggers, nonprofits, and news outlets for alleged copyright violations of newspaper stories. Some of the suits have merit; many are absurd. Righthaven has secured some settlements, but it's more notable for getting judges to rule that even publishing the complete text of news stories can be fair use.
When the suits started last year, aggravated readers objected to the whole sordid operation, and they expressed that anger to writers at the Review Journal. Columnist Vin Suprymowicz wrote in response:
I don't think I will miss you. I have a far lower opinion of thieves than you appear to have. In fact, watching them copy my columns while interpolating their own content and pretending it's mine, watching them throw small merchants on the verge of bankruptcy by switching price tags and otherwise stealing merchandise below cost, I hate them with a passion. Lawsuits? They should have their godd**ned hands cut off and nailed to the wall of City Hall.
The paper's publisher, Sherman Frederick, likewise warned readers: "I'm asking you nicely once again—don't steal our content. Or, I promise you, you will meet my little friend called Righthaven."
Well, we met him—he lives under a bridge near the edge of town, he has knobby skin and a greenish hue, and he's not actually friendly.
1 out of 200 ain't bad!
This week, Righthaven filed a federal lawsuit (PDF) against Eriq Gardner for a freelance piece he wrote for us back in December. That article, "Copyright troll Righthaven sues for control of Drudge Report domain," described how Righthaven had expanded its work to include suing for papers like the Denver Post, and how it was pursuing The Drudge Report for using a Post photo of a TSA airport pat-down. In recompense for that offense, Righthaven made the astonishing request to be given control of the Drudge Report domain name.
In our article, we reproduced the pat-down photo in question. It wasn't a copy of the original image. No, our reproduction came from Righthaven's own court filing against The Drudge Report. It was a grainy black-and-white image from the court documents, which in turn had copied the image from Drudge, which in turn had (allegedly) copied it from the Post.
US copyright law allows certain "fair uses" of copyrighted material without consent of the rightsholder; such uses explicitly include "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research." Making a final determination relies on a "four-factor test":
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
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(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
We strongly believe that the use is fair—indeed, that it is almost a paradigmatic case of fair use. A grainy black-and-white copy of a color photo, used to illustrate a news account about said photo, is the reason we have fair use. I had thought I was immune to feelings of surprise after covering these sorts of legal battles for years, but it turns out I still have the capacity to feel shock. The reaction around the Ars newsroom—and from our legal counsel—was absolute bafflement.
And instead of suing Ars Technica directly, Righthaven bizarrely sued freelancer Eriq Gardner, who regularly writes on legal matters for The Hollywood Reporter and who has covered Righthaven for some time. The post in question is the only one Gardner has ever written for Ars.
The result is that we had a New York writer being sued by a Nevada company over a Colorado photo published by a New York-based website. Righthaven claimed "willful" infringement and requested statutory damages, which can reach as high as $150,000 per infringement. In addition, they wanted their legal fees covered. And they wanted "pre- and post-judgment interest."
So, after getting the green light from Condé Nast's legal team, I gave Righthaven a call to find out just what was going on here. After waiting on hold for a while, I was put through to Steven Ganim and Shawn Mangano, lawyers for Righthaven, who immediately volunteered the information that the lawsuit had been "dismissed with prejudice" this morning after it "came to our attention" that Gardner was a reporter.
This raised huge, obvious questions. Among them: isn't this the sort of thing one looks into before filing federal lawsuits that request tens of thousands of dollars in damages from journalists reporting on your company?
Mangano explained that there had been "confusion" about the exhibits on the complaint. Righthaven has actually sued 25 or 30 people over the same photo recently, and in reviewing all of the documentation on these cases, they determined there was "an internal error" or a "clerical mistake" of some kind that led the reviewers to proceed with the Ars Technica case. The nature of this exhibit "error" remains opaque; I checked the official complaint Righthaven filed with the court, and the exhibits attached to it do in fact show the Ars Technica story with the correct photo. No exhibit confusion was evident.
Mangano said that Righthaven does review all cases before filing them, and he said that the company's track record was great. "We strive for accuracy," he said. "This is the first time in 200+ lawsuits that we have voluntarily dismissed with prejudice."
He offered no apology, though he did chuckle at the absurdity of it all. Ha. What's a little litigation among friends?
And Righthaven is a friend to journalists, it turns out. "We took immediate corrective action" after learning that Righthaven had just sued a reporter, said Mangano. He added that, since reporters make use of copyright and tend to know a good deal about fair use, "It's somewhat counterintuitive to sue a reporter for copyright infringement!"
Which, of course, it is.
Bottom line, in Mangano's view: Righthaven's internal processes are great, one small error was made when filing a big batch of similar cases, and it has been corrected. No harm, no foul.
There's reason for doubt about these incredibly accurate internal processes. Righthaven can't even dismiss cases properly, noting in today's filing that this was a "VOLUNTARY DISMISSAL OF ACTION WITHOUT PREJUDICE" even as the text of the filing read "VOLUNTARY DISMISSAL OF ACTION WITH PREJUDICE." (Dismissing a case with prejudice means it cannot be refiled.)
As this piece was being published, Righthaven refiled the dismissal motion, this time getting it correct.
It's easy to blame Righthaven for this farce—and, let's be clear, we absolutely do—but no one forced venerable papers like the Denver Post to walk this road. Newspapers have been hard hit recently; it's easy to see why these might cling to anything that might keep them from plunging over the cliff, but this work with Righthaven embarrasses their brands, their missions, and their long history. It's beneath them. We hope they find a better path back to profitability.